Wikimedia Discovery/Meetings/Checkin/2016-07-19
Guest Facilitator/Note-taker: Mikhail
Topics from the past
edit- “Kevin plans to rearrange the team retrospectives to do one team per week”?
- Katie has all the 1:1s now
Announcements, Information, Questions
edit- RelEng announced that X-Wikimedia-Debug will be supported by SWAT (see GregG’s email)
- HTTP Proxy header was disabled, causing some issue that we were late to detect (https://httpoxy.org/). If you see strange things, think about that…
- Weird bug that allows you to set a setting from the outside; MediaWiki is not affected in most configurations BUT could be
- Change was rolled back because it was causing problems
- We shouldn’t worry about it, apparently?
- Daisy will be presenting tomorrow (Wednesday) on portal research during Research Showcase
Scrum of Scrums
editAre we blocked?
- None
Are we blocking? (https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/tag/blocked-on-search/)
- None
Other dependencies (in either direction) which don’t need to be called out as “blocked” (e.g. are progressing smoothly, have no urgency, etc.)
- “Should HTML formatting/DOM manip (presentation, responsiveness) be done in JS (frontend) or in PHP (backend)”
- https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T136458
- T139378 - implement nearby keyword search - working on this for the Reading Department
- First iteration done and deployed
- Will wait for feedback and see if any more changes are required
- Strong dependency on ops for map servers this quarter (Guillaume is coordinating)
- Ops are OK with enabling Kartographer on small wikis
Discovery News
editFYI
edit- Next Discovery team retrospectives: TBD (late July/early August)
- Next Showcase (“CREDIT”): Scheduled August 3
- Signup: https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/CREDIT
- Next All-Discovery retro TBD (mid-October)
- Guillaume on vacation next week
- Jan, Kevin and David on vacation this week
- Dan, Yuri, Julien, Deb, Max, and Katie will be at State of the Map US Conference Saturday - Monday (traveling Friday and Tuesday)
- Katherine, our ED, is keynoting the event
- Stas in Seattle on Friday for https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/DataViz_Seattle_hackathon